Select the largest inner planet and the largest outer planet in your Mystery Sol
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Select the largest inner planet and the largest outer planet in your Mystery Solar System.(The Mystery Solar System is not the one which we are located, is a imaginary one, solve the question according to the data in table.) For each of these, use the location, size, and composition (based on density) to answer these questions. Be sure to list these values in your answers. You should also compare these values to the worlds in our solar system to help you answer these questions.
a. What is likely to be the most important heat source in the interiors of each of these planets? Explain your choice.
b. Is the interior likely to be hot enough to power convective motion in the mantle? Explain why or why not.
Known Planets 5 1 Earth mass 6 x 10 24 kg Inner Solar System 3 1 Earth Radius 6.4 x 10M6 m Outer Solar System 1 AU 1.5 x 10M8 km Wavele Orbit ngth Inner Solar Mass Distance Period Tilt Radius No Light System (Earth From Star (Earth Spin (degrees (Earth Reflectivit Greenhouse Emitted Large Small years) (hours) Radii) y Temp (KK) (nm) Moons Moons 0.130 0.16 0.06 525.0 154.0 0.55 072 510 5669 0 Planets Masses) (AU) 0.630 0.46 0.30 9.17 80.7 0.87 0.43 358 7626 1 3 0.398 0.87 0.77 43.1 106.9 0.76 0.39 265 6814 4 0.497 1.23 1.29 11.4 99.6 0.84 051 211 7272 1.87 2.41 23.8 128.9 1.03 0.34 185 8191 1 0 1.092 Wavelength Outer Solar Mass Distance Orbit Tilt Radius Light System (Earth From Star Period Spin (degrees (Earth Reflectivit Emitted Large Small Radii Planets Masses) (AU) (years) (hours) y (nm) Moons Moons 51749 6.79 16.7 6.5 0.6 11.89 052 32421 3.000 233 27 95 21.59 947 8.17 36.0 5.09 050 57349 0.000 7 3 27 5.75 4791 312.99 12.4 1.8 10.12 0.49 84801 5.000 30 An axis tilt 90 degrees implies that the planet is spinning retrograde (opposite its orbit direction) Reflectivity is the fraction of starlight reflected by the planet back to space The no-greenhouse temperature depends on the albedo and the distance from the star. It may not match the actual surface temperature. The wavelength of light emitted is the peak wavelength of thermal emission from the planet. Use this to calculate temperature Large Moons are defined as having a mass greater than 0.002 Earth masses or 10 22 kgExplanation / Answer
a. Inner Solar system Planet's wavelength is likely to be the most important heat source in the interiors of each of these planets since Heat is the amount of Energy and we can understand it with this relation as Energy is inversely proportional to the Wavelength so we can conclude with it that lesser the wavelength more will be the Energy(HEAT).
b. Yes, the interior likely to be hot enough to power convective motion in the mantle If it is not then there will be no circular motion of the planet which will ultimately result in the fall of the planet into the infinite Galaxy.
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